Networking is now a foundational infrastructure. As companies embrace the cloud, digitalize, become data-centric, drive hybrid working strategies, and explore AI and IoT initiatives, the network infrastructure becomes crucial. Unfortunately, as many found out, pre-pandemic network infrastructure was not designed with these needs in mind.

It is one reason why SD-WAN is becoming a key focus. This whitepaper, by Telstra, VMware and GlobalData, highlights the key benefits of SD-WAN, gaps in the current network infrastructure that it fills, its role in network overlay and carrier underlay, and how it will matter more as businesses become more IoT and AI-centric.